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13th ANNUAL WORKSHOP 2017
STATE OF THE ALLIANCESusan Coulter / Chair of the Board of Directors
[ March 28, 2017 ]
LA-UR-17-22450
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
HOW DID I GET HERE ?
LANL / HPC
• Cluster System Administrator ~2005
• Network Team ~2010
• Deployment not Development
• Started a User’s Group (IBUG)
• Administrator-focused presentations at this workshop
OFA Board of Directors
• Re-up’d LANL membership
• Jim Ryan retired
• Desire for non-vendor as Chair
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OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
WHAT IS THE OFA ?
OpenFabrics Alliance
• OpenIB, Inc.
• California corporation 1/6/2005
• Changed to OpenFabrics, Inc
• Pushed code upstream
• Created Verbs training class
• Created InterOp
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OFA
EWG, OFIWG, OFVWG
Interop, Compliance
Marketing Programs
Training Programs
Administration
logistics,vision
test, validation engineers
coders, consumers,architects
industry awareness
knowledge
logo programs,validated designs
software
educators,architects,sys admins
Inputs Outcomes
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OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
OFA SUCCESS
OpenFabrics Alliance
• OpenIB, Inc.
• California corporation 1/6/2005
• Changed to OpenFabrics, Inc
• Push code upstream – get OpenFabrics software into the kernel and the
distros
• Market and facilitate the technology
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OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
This workshop
• Bill Lee and the MWG
• Logistics, location, advertisement
• Scheduling, agenda
• Paul Grun and the Technical Program Committee
• Easy Chair / Submission Review
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OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
Online Calendar
• Working Groups and associated meetings
• Call in details
• Board Meetings, etc
• How to get involved
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OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
Training
• Developed a number of years ago
• Offered by UNH-IOL
• Now accessible via OFA website
• Free to all
• Can be used to offer classes for profit
• Would love to receive feedback and updates
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OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
Dual License
• Bylaws dictate member contributions be dual licensed, GPL & BSD
• Wider adoption by the community allowed some GPLv2-only files to slip in
• How many ?
• Where are they ? ( kernel space, user space )
• What does this mean for member companies ?
• What does this mean for OFED ?
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OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
Maintainer Support
• Face-to-face meetings
• 2 or 3 per year
• ~2 days each
• By invitation from Doug Ledford
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OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
InterOp Expansion
• Add software distribution testing and integration
• On-demand / release candidates
• Final release
• New tests to insure functionality
• Update testing framework
• jenkins / beaker / OpenQA
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OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017
RECENT WORK
Bylaws Update
• Formalize officers and terms
• Dual license
• Ownership of software
• Mission going forward
• 2 At-Large Director seats
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Mission going forward
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TRANSPARENCY & RELEVANCE
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At-large Directors
• Landscape has changed
• Upstream, integrated
• Developer community has expanded
• Fully open-sourced
Townhall – Thursday @ 5pm
• Why does the OFA matter to you ?
• Does the OFA matter to you ?
• What more/less can the OFA be doing ?
• Honest, open discussion
Mission going forward
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13th ANNUAL WORKSHOP 2017
THANK YOUSusan Coulter / Currently sitting in the Chair
Los Alamos National Laboratory